Arcade Game Designer for the Amstrad CPC

 Amstrad CPC, Development, Game  2 Responses »
Jan 282013
 

Jonathan Cauldwell informed me (thanks!), that he is currently porting his Arcade Game Designer to the Amstrad CPC. With the AGD you can design your own small arcade games. It features an own simplistic language, a sprite editor, a screen editor, etc. It will also be possible to port games between the different platforms, so porting back Spectrum games to the CPC Zwinkerndes Smiley? If you want to get more information about the AGD then have a look at the AGD forums.

Here are some preview screenshots:

Blocks

InGame

Menu

Palette

Screens

Sprites

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SAMDisk v3.4

 Amstrad CPC, Utility  No Responses »
Aug 202012
 

SAMdisk is a tool to convert floppy disks into various disk images which can be used in emulators. It works with almost all PC floppy controllers and supports also some copy-protected formats. It requires that you have fdrawcmd.sys, a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.

You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website.

Changes:

  • Added create command for blank HDD and floppy images
  • Added basic IDEDOS partition listing
  • Added checking of good sectors to track repairing
  • Added support for Velesoft DSK/DS2 transfer images
  • Added –chrn to trust ID header over physical location
  • Added –no-1m to skip 1Mbps data rate scanning
  • Restored –byte-swap for Atom/AtomLite conversion
  • Improved ATA identify data handling
  • Improved scan output to report warnings above affected track
  • Fixed recognition of DSC/HDR, CFI, LIF disk images
  • Fixed floppy image conversion to .raw dump
  • Fixed repaired sectors retaining original track offset
  • Fixed detection of oversized tracks with just 1 sector
  • Fixed HDD firmware string missing final character
  • Fixed log file including empty status messages
  • Fixed AL+ boot sector being mistaken for MBR
  • Reverted to Visual Studio 2005 for old CPU compatibility

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SAMDisk v3.3

 Amstrad CPC, Utility  No Responses »
Jun 162012
 

SAMdisk is a tool to convert floppy disks into various disk images which can be used in emulators. It works with almost all PC floppy controllers and supports also some copy-protected formats. It requires that you have fdrawcmd.sys, a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.

You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website.

Changes:

  • Added built-in support for zipped and gzipped files
  • Added support for repairing 8K sectors with bad CRCs
  • Added support for raw hard disk images
  • Added identify device data reading, where available (non-USB)
  • Added –hdf to force HDF version (10 or 11), with v1.1 now the default
  • Added –no-identify to ignore source identify data
  • Added –no-cfa to suppress CFA festures in generated identify data
  • Enhanced identify to include CHS/LBA28/LBA48 sector counts and CFA
  • Enhanced verbose disk list to show serial+firmware and MBR partitions
  • Changed disk list to show all devices by default, not just BDOS
  • Fixed repairing to blank target tracks, with new density check
  • Fixed HDD access beyond 4GB boundary, extended -s range to 2TB
  • Fixed SAD image writing with custom sector sizes
  • Fixed status messages being written to log and not erased correctly
  • Improved FDC integrity checks during sector reads, for suspect hardware
  • Improved total sector count to CHS mapping

 

 

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SAMdisk v3.1

 Amstrad CPC, Utility  1 Response »
Mar 272012
 

SAMdisk is a tool to convert floppy disks into various disk images which can be used in emulators. It works with almost all PC floppy controllers and supports also some copy-protected formats. It requires that you have fdrawcmd.sys, a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.

You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website.

Changes:

  • Added –repair option to help combine damaged image dumps
  • Added write support for D88 images
  • Added support for IMD mixed sector sizes
  • Added record name from source basename, if no label available
  • Added more file sizes for raw image recognition
  • Added verbose track output for floppy->image dumping
  • Fixed IMD creation using 500Kbps instead of 250Kbps
  • Fixed bit alignment during IPF track wrapping
  • Fixed converting images to BDOS format when setting label
  • Increased –rescan matching distance from 32 to 64 bytes
  • Updated to zlib 1.2.5, using zlibwapi.dll instead of zlib1.dll

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dsktools 0.2.3 for Linux

 Amstrad CPC, Utility  2 Responses »
Feb 082012
 

After three and a half years Nurgle updated his dsktools package for Linux. With the dsktools you can read and write DSK images to a floppy drive (USB drives are unsupported!). The new version now supports double sided disks, so you can now transfer newer productions like R-Type under Linux, too. You can download the latest version of the dsktools from the Berlios project page.

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